[Reaganwuzthebest]

And we REMAIN a friendly, all-encompassing nation.

And don't forget Happygal you're always welcome to come here as well. You can make a stop in Boston and set them straight, although that might be hopeless. Some of them in that town are to the left of Karl Marx.

[Happygal]

They'll be left of my right knuckle if they try to shove their 'plastic Paddy' down MY neck.

I'm not a violent woman. But NOTHING offends me more than people (a) assuming that the 2003 Irish nation are 1950's eejits. and (b) lording second and third Brian Boru bullshit ancestry down my neck.

YES!!! Many people from Ireland left the country and went to America and found a new life and fair play to them. And many more of our families stayed home, and (thanks to the American companies), stuck it out, and made the country very viable..and brilliant.

I love America. (I just hate the plastic Paddies who have funded the terrorists in NI..and they come from Boston in the main).

[Happygal]

BTW...I guess you have guessed, that I absolutely LOVE my country (Ireland).

I love FR the way it talks about Patriotism. I can't be patriotic to America, or England or the allies, because, I am, and will always be patriotic to Ireland. (I see that, as one of my strengths..my patriotism. My country needs, and deserves ME. I love her, and I would die for her.)But, my country is a democracy..and therefore I have the option to die for her, or not.

That's what I admire about so many people on FR..their individual patriotism. It's applaudable.